Pictureman
William Richardson Mullins made his living as a photographer in Eastern Kentucky and Southwest Virginia. Starting in the Great Depression, he traveled the mountains taking pictures until, eventually,...
13 Kesä 202011min
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Football is big in Appalachia, just like it was 94 years ago when two teams met but only one, apparently, was there to play. Today we tell the story of one of the most lopsided high school football g...
6 Kesä 202011min
Der Furrier
Today we tell how Adolf Hitler came to be in eastern Kentucky after World War II...not. It's actually a story about a massive con job on post-war Nazi sympathizers all done from Middlesboro, Kentucky...
30 Touko 202015min
The First Woman Convicted Of Bank Robbery In Kentucky
Today we tell the story of Lillian Grace Browder who, with her husband Carl, robbed the Farmer's Bank in Louisville, Kentucky. In the process she earned the distinction of being the first woman to be...
23 Touko 20209min
L. W. Wright, Nascar Legend
In 1982 a man in Nashville managed to con enough people to earn a spot in the Nascar race in Talladega, Alabama. He made it a few laps, earned a little prize money, then vanished, leaving behind seve...
16 Touko 202014min
The Murder of Lillie Davis
In 1907 a woman was killed in a cemetery that straddled the border between Virginia and Tennessee in Bristol. Newspapers of the day soon turned this crime into a media circus, especially after it was...
9 Touko 20209min
The Fast
In 1937 a devout Christian man in Sequatchie County, Tennessee, was instructed by the Lord to begin a fast. He did as he was told and at the same time attracted the attention of a nation in the grip ...
2 Touko 20209min
The Spanish Flu, Part Two
A few weeks ago we told about the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic that swept across Appalachia. Today we return to tell more of that story. You can subscribe to the Stories podcast at Apple Podcasts, Stitc...
25 Huhti 202019min
